2016-04-19, 20:20
We continue to ship the "os.openelec.tv" addon as part of LE7, and also these initial LE8 builds, for reasons of backward compatibility.
Longer term it will be dropped, and probably won't be in LE8 official releases, so addons should not depend on "os.openelec.tv" being available and should use "os.libreelec.tv" instead. As I'm not an add-on developer I don't know what the best solution for this is, from an add-on developers point of view - perhaps make both add-ons optional, and then decide which is available at run-time?
Longer term it will be dropped, and probably won't be in LE8 official releases, so addons should not depend on "os.openelec.tv" being available and should use "os.libreelec.tv" instead. As I'm not an add-on developer I don't know what the best solution for this is, from an add-on developers point of view - perhaps make both add-ons optional, and then decide which is available at run-time?